Literature: History & Criticism

Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century's most popular modes of performance: conjur...

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist ...

In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' are centrally located in 'Light Ethereal, first of things', 'that light', as Raphael expla...

For many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeares lofty reputation as the worlds greatest playwright has turned him into an intimidating, even a forb...

Kenneth White achieved fame in his adopted country of France as a poet, essayist and travel writer. His status was confirmed in 1983 by his appoint...

Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in the Unit...